Program > Mini-symposia

Mini symposia. You should register your abstract into one of the following mini symposia, the list of which having been selected by the organising commitees. This is a traditional organisation procedure for ESMC conference series. This is intend to provide focussed and lively sessions. If you do not find any suitable topic for your research in the list, you can also submit to the more general sessions listed here : https://esmc2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7.

Mechanics of Materials

1-1 - Mechanics of fibrous materials and textiles  Summary here
Organisers : Stepan Lomov (KU Leuven), Catalin Picu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), and Dmytro Vasiukov (IMT Nord Europe)

1-2 - Mechanics of composite materials Summary here
Organisers : Frédéric Laurin (ONERA) and François Guillet (CEA)

1-3 - Architected and additively manufactured materials (metals, polymers, ceramics) Summary here
Organisers : Emily D. Sanders (Georgia Tech), François Barthelat (CU Boulder), Eric Charkaluk (LMS Paris) and Dennis Kochmann (ETH Zurich)

1-4 - Multiscale modelling of polycrystalline materials Summary here
Organisers : Ivano Benedetti (University Palermo) and Marc Bernacki  (CEMEF)

1-5 - Mechanics of ceramics Summary here
Organisers : Sylvain Meille (MATEIS) and Emilio Jimenez-Piqué (UPC Barcelona)

1-6 - Mechanics of polymers Summary here
Organisers : Julie Diani (LMS), Jean-Luc Bouvard (CEMEF) and Florian Arbeiter (University Leoben)

1-7 - Multiscale materials modelling from atoms to macroscale Summary here
Organisers : Sylvain Patinet (ESPCI), Renald Brenner (Institut Jean Le Rond D'alembert) and Sebastian Pfaller (FAU Nuremberg)

1-8 - Mechanics of active and coupled materials Summary here
Organisers : Daniel Garcia Gonzalez (University Carlos III, Madrid) and Kostas Danas (LMS) 

Biomechanics and Medical Implants

2-1 - Mechanics of Cells, Proteins, and Microcapsules Summary here
Organisers : Anne-Virginie Salsac (UTC) and Patrick McGarry (NUI Galway)

2-2 - Mechanics of Soft Biological Tissues Summary here
Organisers : Aline Bel-Brunon (LAMCOS) and Gerard Ateshian (Columbia)

2-3 - Cardiovascular Biomechanics Summary here
Organisers : Caitriona Lally (Trinity College Dublin), Christian Cyron (Hamburg University of Technology) and David Nordsletten (University of Michigan)

2-4 - Mechanics of Mineralized Tissues Summary here
Organisers : Hanna Isaksson (Lund University), Christian Hellmich (TU Wien) and Rémy Gauthier (MATEIS)

2-5 - Mechanics of Biomaterials: from implant to Tissue Engineering Summary here
Organisers : Giulia Luraghi (Polimi), Diana Massai (Polito), Jérôme Chevalier (MATEIS) and Jérôme Molimar (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne)

2-6 - Mechanics of Impact and Trauma Summary here
Organisers :  Svein Keliven (KTH Stockholm), Michael Gilchrist (University college of Dublin) and Philippe Beillas (University Gustave Eiffel)

2-7 - Mechanics and Cancer Summary here
Organisers : José Manuel Garcia Aznar (Universidad de Zaragoza) and Trantafyllos Stylianopoulos (University of Cyprusà)

Continuum Mechanics

3-1 - Homogenisation and Continuum Strategies for Multiphase Materials Summary here
Organisers : Carole Nadot-Martin (P', ISAE ENSMA), Pedro Ponte Castaneda (University of Pennsylvania), Martin Idiart (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) and Issam Doghri (UC Louvain)

3-2 - Material Instabilities Summary here
Organisers : Odd Sture Hopperstad (NTNU, Norway) and Henryk Petryk (IPPT Pan)

3-3 - Mechanics and Physics of Dense Granular Media: Experiments, Theory and Modelling Summary here
Organisers : Stéphanie Deboeuf (Institut Jean le Rond D'Alembert) and Nathalie M. Vriend (University of Colorado, Boulder)

3-4 - Mechanics and physics of fracture Summary here
Organisers : Véronique Lazarus (ENSTA Paris), Eric Bitzek (Max Planck Institute Dusseldorf) and Matteo Ciccoti (ESPCI, Paris)

3-5 - Nonlinear Elasticity Summary here
Organisers : Yibin Fu (Keele Univerisity) and Bilen Abali (Uppsala University, Sweden)

3-6 - Recent Advances in Plasticity and Damage Mechanics Summary here
Organisers : Gergely Molnár (LAMCOS), Claudia Comi (Polimi) and Corrado Maurini (Institut Jean le Rond D'Alembert)

3-7 - Modeling fatigue of materials and structures Summary here
Organisers : Jean-Yves Buffière (MATEIS) and David Nowell (Imperial College London)

Experimental Mechanics

4-1 - Experimental Micromechanics and Nanomechanics Summary here
Organisers : G. Dehm (MPIE-Dusseldorf), J. Molina (IMDEA-Madrid) and G. Kermouche (LGF-EMSE)

4-2 - In situ Mechanics Summary here
Organisers : D. Juul Jensen (DTU), J.P.M. Hoefnagels (TU-Eindhoven) and D. Seyedi (CEA-Saclay)

4-3 - Non-invasive and Inverse Methods for Constitutive Parameter Identification Summary here
Organisers : S. Avril (SAINBIOSE-EMSE), S. Evans (Cardiff Univ) andJ. Réthoré (GEM-ECN)

4-4 - Testing of materials and structures under high-strain rate Summary here
Organisers :
P.Longère (ISAE-SUPAERO/ICA) and Daniel Rittel (Technion)

4-5 - Materials testing under extreme conditions Summary here
Organisers : Michel Coret (GEM-ECN) and Fabien Souris (CEA)

Computational Mechanics

5-1 - Computational microstructures Summary here
Organisers : Karam Sab (ENPC) and Simone Morganti (University of Pavia)

5-2 - Computational methods for manufacturing and forming processes Summary here
Organisers : Lukasz Madej (TU Krakow) and Katia Mocellin (CEMEF, Mines Paris)

5-3 - Computational nonlinear materials and couplings Summary here
Organisers : Andreas Menzel (TU Dortmund) and Julien Yvonnet (Université Gustave Eiffel)

5-4 - Computational methods for damage and fracture Summary here
Organisers : Nicolas Moes (UC Louvain) and Jean-François Molinari (EPFL)

5-5 - Mechanical challenges in Energy Production/Harvesting/Storage Summary here
Organisers : Alberto Salvadori (University of Pavia) and Alejandro Franco (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)

5-6 - Model reduction and machine learning Summary here
Organisers : David Ryckelynk (Ecole des Mines de Paris) and Francisco Chinesta (ENSAM)

5-7 - Data driven approaches of materials structures and processes Summary here
Organisers : Laurent Stainier (EC Nantes), Michael Ortiz (Caltech) and Benjamin Klusemann (Leuphana University)

Dynamics, Waves and Metamaterials

6-1 - Nonlinear Dynamics in Mechanical and Structural Systems Summary here
Organisers : Sergey Sorokin (Aalborg University) and Daniele Zulli (University Aquila)

6-2 - Elastic Metamaterials and Topological Aspects of Waves Summary here
Organisers : Agnès Maurel (ESPCI), Anastasiia O. Krushynska (Groningen, NL) and Régis Cottereau (CNRS Marseille, FR)

6-3 - Dynamic and transient phenomena, dynamic phase transitions, nonlinear waves Summary here
Organisers : Michael Nieves (Keele University) and Vincent Tournat (Le Mans Université)

Structural Mechanics

7-1 - Nonconservative stability problems of structural mechanics and fluid structure interactions Summary here
Organisers : Oleg Kirillov (Northumbria University) and Olivier Doare (ENSTA Paristech)

7-2 - Structural analysis of historical buildings Summary here
Organisers : M.Angelillo (Univ.Salerno), S. Huerta (UP Madrid)

7-3 - Innovative sustainable and resilient structures Summary here
Organisers : Carlos Lazaro (UP Valencia), Cyril Douthe (Univ Eiffel)

7-4 - Mechanics and physics of structures Summary here
Organisers : Sebastien Neukirch (Sorbonne Universit), Benoit Romain (ESPCI), F. Dal Corso (Univ. Trento) and M.Diaz (University of Edinburgh)

7-5 - Health monitoring of structures (civil transport) Summary here
Organisers : Nazih Mechbal (PIMM), Pascal Casari (Gem) and Filippo Ubertini (Perugia)

7-6 - Shape and topology optimization Summary here
Organisers : Francois Jouve (Université Paris Cité), Alex Ferrer (CIMNE, Spain)

Tribology

8-1 - Contact Mechanics Summary here
Organisers : Lars Pastewka (University of Freiburg), Nicola Menga (Politecnico Bari), and Thibaut Chaise (LAMCOS)

8-2 - Lubrication and Interfacial Rheology Summary here
Organisers :  Juliette Cayer-Barrioz (Ecole Centrale Lyon) and Nicolas Fillot (LAMCOS)

8-3 - Wear Mechanisms Summary here
Organisers : Martin Dienwiebel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Anna Igual Munoz (EPFL), Aurélien Saulot (LAMCOS)

8-4 - Fundamentals of Friction Summary here
Organisers : Clelia Righi (University of Bologna), Lucas Frérot (Institut Jean Le Rond D'Alembert) and Denis Mazuyer (Ecole Centrale Lyon)

8-5 - Fretting/fatigue Summary here
Organisers : Siegfried Fouvry (Ecole des Mines de Paris), Tomasz Liskiewicz (Manchester Metropolitan University) et Sylvie Descartes (LAMCOS)

8-6 - Tactile and Perception Summary here
Organisers : Marie-Ange Bueno (ENSISA) Mark Rutland (KTH), and Francesco Massi (University of Rome)